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Emplenota Csy. 



Polystoma \\ Steph. 



Emplenota longiceps n. sp. Narrow, parallel, rather depressed, dull 

 in lustre, the elytra slightly, the abdomen strongly, shining; color deep 

 black, the elytra testaceous except at base and externally; punctures 

 rather coarse and well separated, still sparser on the abdomen, where 

 they are wholly wanting in the impressions of the four basal tergites; 

 vestiture sparse but long, pale and laniform; head large, rather longer 

 than wide, parallel and nearly straight at the sides, three-fourths as 

 wide as the prothorax, the eyes well developed but not prominent; 

 antennae black, moderately long and incrassate, the first three joints 

 decreasing, the outer joints obtrapezoidal and about one-half wider than 

 long, the last pyriform, not as long as the two preceding; punctures 

 coarse and distinct, wanting in a broad entire median line; prothorax 

 two-fifths wider than long, parallel, with evenly arcuate sides and broadly 

 rounded base, the basal angles very obtuse but not much rounded; surface 

 slightly elevated before each side of the scutellum, broadly flattened 

 medially; elytra slightly shorter than wide, parallel, distinctly wider 

 and much longer than the prothorax, the apices evenly arcuato-truncate; 

 abdomen parallel, only very slightly narrower than the elytra, the sides 

 straight, with rather thick margins, the fifth tergite distinctly longer 

 than the fourth. Length 3.8 mm.; width 0.8 mm. British Columbia 

 (Metlakatla), Keen. 



Separable from trilimbata, to which it is somewhat closely allied, 

 by the more elongate, more rectilinearly parallel and more strongly 

 punctured head, with decidedly larger though less prominent eyes, 

 longer antennae and longer and more shaggy vestiture. 



Microglossa Kr. 



The only species occurring in this country hitherto recognized 

 as belonging in the neighborhood of this genus, is the imported 

 Cratarcea suturalis Mann., which I have from Europe, Rhode 

 Island and Iowa. The following seems to be a true Microglossa: 



Microglossa grandiceps n. sp. Stout, parallel, convex, shining, dark 

 rufo-piceous, the legs barely at all paler, the head and abdomen slightly 

 blackish, the pubescence moderately short, rather sparse and incon- 

 spicuous; anterior parts nearly smooth, the punctures small, sparse and 

 very feeble, the elytra strongly, more closely and asperulately punctate, 

 the abdomen finely and sparsely, the three deep subequal basal impres- 

 sions almost punctureless; head large, convex, wider than long, fully 

 three-fourths as wide as the prothorax, parallel, the eyes moderate, 

 slightly prominent and anterior; antennae piceous, rather short, stout, 

 incrassate, the basal joint much longer than two or three, which are 

 subequal, the outer joints transverse, the last large, stout; prothorax 



